{"id":88543,"date":"2025-10-16T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=88543"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:20:46","slug":"world-smelliest-flower-stolen-from-germanys-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/world-smelliest-flower-stolen-from-germanys-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"World smelliest flower stolen from Germany&#8217;s botanical garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN: In shocking news, the rare plant known\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">as the corpse flower, the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/narowal-farmer-distributes-50-maunds-of-cauliflower-for-free-amid-low-market-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world&#8217;s smelliest flower,<\/a><\/span>&#8216; has been stolen from a German botanical garden, international reports say.<\/p>\n<p>The heist of the unusual plant became a social media sensation after police were called upon to search for the missing specimen. The missing plant, &#8220;David,&#8221; weighed approximately 60 pounds and was stored in the R\u00f6mber Botanical Garden. Its theft was discovered through a routine check by staff.<\/p>\n<p>The plant, scientifically known as Amorphophallus titanum, is also known as the Titan Arum or &#8220;corpse flower&#8221; due to the pungent smell it releases when it flowers\u2014a smell so pungent that it can permeate an entire city.<\/p>\n<p>Standing at several feet high, the enormous flower resembles a plant in size and shape. Nonetheless, experts affirm it is, in fact, a flower because it is grown from a seed, develops into a bud, and experiences complete blooming.<\/p>\n<p>Titan Arum is among the world&#8217;s rarest flowers, which bloom once in a few years and are open for only 24 hours. Only around 1,000 of these plants are estimated to be found around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials are still pursuing their investigation to retrieve the stolen specimen, which is scientifically and ecologically valuable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN: In shocking news, the rare plant known\u00a0as the corpse flower, the &#8216;world&#8217;s smelliest flower,&#8216; has been stolen from a German botanical garden, international reports say. The heist of the unusual plant became a social media sensation after police were called upon to search for the missing specimen. The missing plant, &#8220;David,&#8221; weighed approximately 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":88544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[31721,31720],"class_list":["post-88543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-germany-botanical-garden","tag-worlds-smelliest-flower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88545,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88543\/revisions\/88545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}